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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 27.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2011 May 24;54(8):2000–2008. doi: 10.1007/s00125-011-2176-7

Table 3. Predictors of hospital admission and costs in type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

aPart 1: predictors of hospital admission
Part 2: predictors of annual cost of at least 1 admission per year
Model Coef. Odds ratio (95% CI) Model Coef. Cost ratio (95% CI)
Type 1
 Male −0.277 0.758 (0.722, 0.797) 0.007 1.007 (0.950, 1.067)
 Age (years) 0.006 1.006 (1.004, 1.008) 0.012 1.012 (1.010, 1.014)
 Previous vascular admission 0.849 2.337 (2.133, 2.562) 0.196 1.216 (1.033, 1.306)
 Diabetes duration (years) 0.006 1.006 (1.005, 1.007) 0.000 1.000 (0.998, 1.003)
 Creatinine (μmol/l) 0.006 1.006 (1.005, 1.007) 0.003 1.003 (1.002, 1.003)
 BMI (kg/m2) −0.017 0.983 (0.978, 0.989) −0.006 0.994 (0.988, 1.000)
 HbA1c (%) 0.181 1.198 (1.181, 1.216) 0.006 1.006 (0.991, 1.021)
 constant −-3.144 0.043 (0.035, 0.053) 7.615 2028 (1580, 2604)
Type 2
 Male −0.131 0.877 (0.862, 0.892) 0.033 1.033 (1.015, 1.052)
 Age (years) 0.018 1.019 (1.017, 1.020) 0.006 1.006 (1.005, 1.007)
 Previous vascular admission 0.494 1.639 (1.606, 1.672) 0.059 1.061 (1.040, 1.081)
 On insulin 0.498 1.646 (1.609, 1.684) 0.153 1.166 (1.137, 1.199)
 Diabetes duration (years) 0.015 1.015 (1.014, 1.016) 0.001 1.001 (1.000, 1.003)
 Creatinine (μmol/l) 0.005 1.005 (1.004, 1.005) 0.001 1.001 (1.001, 1.002)
 BMI (kg/m2) −0.004 0.996 (0.995, 0.998) −0.008 0.992 (0.990, 0.994)
 HbA1c (%) −0.042 0.969 (0.953, 0.964) −0.031 0.969 (0.960, 0.978)
 constant −2.566 0.077 (0.080, 0.085) 8.455 4699 (4083, 5507)
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Part 1 is derived using a logistic regression model. Part 2 is conditional on at least one admission occurring within a given year and is derived from a generalised linear model. The number of people included in the models were 19,753 for type 1 and 154,044 for type 2 diabetes.